This is just a little blog on our chicken coop build from start to finish - well, nearly finished as we still have a few finishing touches to add.
Above is a quick video of most of the build. I have put together some more detailed and instructional type videos, and have more I am currently working on, of how Mr. Rain built each individual part like the nesting boxes, the coop door, the run gate, the hand crafted metal latches, and more. So much work involved in not only the process of making these things, but the editing of those videos from hours and hours down to a tolerable watch time that is also educational!
Last year Mr. Rain got as far as making the stem walls around the coop area after replacing the supporting posts for the playhouse and rebuilding the entire fence along the east side. This year he started back into the project by hand mixing and pouring a concrete floor for easy clean up. Then he was able to get started on the actual cool itself.
Here is a photo of Mr. Rain doing some "engineering", as he put it, in the middle of the build:
This is the day we moved the chicks into the coop, cannot believe how much they have grown since this photo:
After finishing the build, he went on to create this nice run and fabulous (at least in my opinion) gate to the run:
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Patrick then painted the coop to not only match our house, but the playhouse that is above it. The playhouse was originally built when our boys were little, about 20 years ago. They are now in their 20's but we wanted to keep the playhouse for our future grandbabies. A lot of work went into lifting up the playhouse, replacing the old rotting 4"x 4" with treated 6" x 6" and set them in concrete so they should last twice as long, or more, as the ones before.
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He then went on to create the wonderful latches for the door and gate but I will likely talk more of those in a future post. Very proud of my husband and what a talented person he is. Not sure what I would ever have done without him!
Hope you enjoyed this post about yet another way we are being self sufficient and making the most of our tiny space and what we have!
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He did good work - looks great.
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Thank you! I am pretty happy with it all! :D
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So glad I found your post :-) now following.
I'm doing the same in Panama, so no solid walls needed. Its evolving as I had to remove all wood ( bugs ) buy a welder, and learn how to weld.
And fence the yard due to 30 eaten chicks by a hungry cat.
I've blogged a bit and will more soon, about it. Lots of chicken lovers here @ steemit :-)
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Thank you codypanama! I will be following you too, sounds very interesting what you are doing!
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purely trial and error, were semi desert here, so food crops are out. Chickens thrive in hot and dry areas.
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Yes, we all have our challenges. Here we get up to 160" of rain annually with and average of 120". So, working around that and the plethora of mutant slugs that come with it causes one to have to be very creative. By the way, the old beer in a container method that everyone recommends for slugs is totally useless here, as is DE, crushed eggshells, and all the rest that people recommend. They simply do not understand the breed of slugs we have here! haha
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Slugs ! hummm, everything else thrives here, I don't remember ever seeing 1.
We have Toads at night, crap all over everything, eat all the dog food, sleep in my boots ( I shake them out now ). But you know what ? They eat bugs, and anything that eats bugs is a friend of mine:-)
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O my goodness, that made much chuckle! Thanks for the laugh! We do not get much for toads but we have had the small green frogs quite often and I believe they eat slugs, but for some reason, they have been scarce the past couple of years, I think that may be why our slug population has increased. I hear them croaking not far from us so I may just have to go hunt a few down and introduce them back into my garden :)
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Amazing craftsmanship :)
Gotta love dem chikenz cuz dey feed ya ^^
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Absolutely! :D
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Fancy! We're about to build a new coop that we hope will be better than our old one (we built it out of an old play set but it functioned for a while!). Upvoted and followed! :)
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Nice! I need to check out your stuff! Following now! :D
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